Current Affairs

Meng Wanzhou was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in 2018 and returned to China three years later after entering into a deferred prosecution agreement. The charges against her were dismissed, but the criminal case against Huawei continued. In September 2026, this case spanning more than two decades went to trial in the Eastern District of New York. This episode begins with Hong Kong-based Skycom, its business in Iran, and a 2013 meeting with a bank, before turning to T-Mobile's Tappy robot and the Quintel antenna dispute to examine how allegations of bank fraud, trade-secret theft, and other offenses were assembled into a single case.

From sperm donors, intended parents, and procreative intent, this article explains how California law determines parentage in assisted reproduction and gestational surrogacy, and how cases including Sorensen, Johnson, Moschetta, and Buzzanca shaped the current framework.

From City of Grants Pass v. Johnson to President Trump's Executive Order 14321, this article examines how the U.S. Supreme Court redrew the line between the status of homelessness and the conduct of sleeping outside, and how the federal government is using grants, civil commitment, and program conditions to reshape street-level policy.

On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6–3 to strike down Trump's Executive Order 14160 and reaffirm birthright citizenship. This episode follows the dispute from the order and preliminary injunctions through class-action strategy and the final judgment, reads the justices' separate opinions, and asks how secure the victory really is.

Gao Mingxuan, a towering figure in Chinese criminal law, died on February 26, 2026, aged 98. Beginning with his role in drafting the PRC's first criminal code, this episode unpacks the long debate between the four-element and three-tier theories of crime—and asks how state penal power should be exercised and citizens' rights protected.